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In this entry Lucy Virgiria writes of attending church & hearing Dr. Hopson preach, who was Gen. Morgans chaplin. She liked the sermon. Her three children began school again and the school room required much prepapration. Her children complained...

French was very ill with a headache from Thursday through Saturday. She has been reading aloud "Husks" by Marian Harland and has also begun Raids and Romance of Morgan and his Men by Sallie Rochester Ford. She did not enjoy the first as much as...

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Now let me see what I find in your
letter to laugh at, grieve over, or scold
about. First; you are glad to get my
great long letter, and never get tired
of reading them. I am happy to
know you are pleased with the length
of them for you...

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camps and the loved ones thy contain. Here
I drawn a picture of Blountville? If so
I can truly sympathize with you and only
regret my inability to dispel the gloom that
thickens round the many lonely hearth stones.
The only consolation I...

This issue of Harper's Weekly features a cover image of "Santa Claus in Camp." On pages 8 and 9 of the publication is an engraving of "Christmas Eve 1862" with sentimentalized scenes of a lonely Union soldier on pickett duty gazing at a tintype of...

Audio excerpt of Jewel Allen oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses how his wife learned to quilt from her family and how he began quilting himself. People have offered to buy his quilts, but he...

Letter from Adaline Davis to Joseph N. B. Lusk. She tells her future husband she is happy that he is ready to defend his home and country to the end. Adaline wishes Joe would put down his sword and gun, but she must submit to the will of God. She;...

Letter addressed to Misses [?] and Hattie Norman. Johnson laments that he has heard nothing from home and notes the many changes since the war began. "The dark and bloody tide of war has raged for four years sweeping friend & foe. But thank heaven...

Joe's love letter to Addie says he is lonely without her. He has been to a singing where he saw many pretty girls, but none as pretty as she. Joe says that he loves Addie and quotes from the 1840s ballad, "I'd Offer Thee This Hand of Mine." He adds...

Letter from Nancy Norris Warlick to her husband, Pvt. John N. Warlick, Co. G, 55th (Brown's) Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regt., CSA. She writes that she is working on a coat for him and that news of his impending move to Columbus, Ky., where the regiment was...

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lips of poets or orators in Roman
Lyceums or Grecian ? a language that come like the gentle mummers
of the western breeze o'er the lover's soul and as it passes it whispers
its words of hope and love -a language of love. In the quiet...

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torment.
Mine is that wild passionate love, which a soft soothing word, a gentle caress, a blushing
kiss can make as tender and gentle as a lamb; but which a caress refused, a kiss denied
wounds to the quick, and transforms its honey...

Letter to Daniel Hoge Bruce, Co. A, 51st Va. Inf., Regt., CSA, from his cousin, Sue. She writes passionately about the destruction the South. Yet, she fears the outcome of surrender: "war, cruel and unrelenting as it is, would be far preferable to...

Daniel Hoge Bruce, Co. A, 51st Va. Inf., Regt., CSA, from his cousin, Sue. She writes, "I suppose you have been engaged in a fight since you wrote. We have heard but very little of the result. Indeed, I hardly know how to write, whether I am...

Handwritten entry for the date, covering parts of two pages. Entry finds Craighead noting the two-year anniversary of the First Tennessee Regiment, including her brother with the Rock City Guards, passing through Nashville from their induction...

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. News of the burning of Rock Rest, the family's country home in Robertson County reached Craighead. The Robertson County connection came from Rachel's mother, the former Mary J....

Handwritten entry from Rachel Carter Craighead's Civil War diary. As Craighead absorbs the news of a family friend becoming engaged to a Federal, she recalls that 1863 held the death of her brother John. She also recalls the burning of Rock Rest,...